Blog: 10 plays in Provincetown festival

Provincetown Theater will present its 2013 fall playwrights festival Nov. 7-10, featuring two one-act plays and eight 10-minute plays by New England and New York writers, with local directors.

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By KATHI SCRIZZI-DRISCOLL

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Posted Nov. 4, 2013 at 7:25 AM
Updated Nov 4, 2013 at 8:14 AM

By KATHI SCRIZZI-DRISCOLL

Posted Nov. 4, 2013 at 7:25 AM
Updated Nov 4, 2013 at 8:14 AM

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Provincetown Theater will present its 2013 fall playwrights festival Nov. 7-10, featuring two one-act plays and eight 10-minute plays by New England and New York writers, with local directors.

The scripts include what the theater describes as “diverse theatrical storytelling, including comedies about the modern relationship in love and war, fancy technology gone awry, the creation of man and his idiocy (and) religious dating.”

All shows are at the theater, 238 Bradford St., with a $10 suggested donation for admission. Box office is 508-487-7487 or www.provincetowntheater.org. Performances are divided into two programs.

At 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 and 9 and 2 p.m. Nov. 10, featured plays will be the 10-minute plays “Tennis, Anyone?” by Candace Perry of Wellfleet, a comedy of modern relationships about a man who uses the title line to pick up women at a train station; “Recalculating,” by Stephen Eimert of Boston, about a man’s relationship with his GPS, which turns out to have insight into his heart; “Terminal Gate,” by Lucy Blood of Amesbury, about a straight-laced businessman meeting an emotional train wreck at a busy airport gate; and “First Confession,” by Stephen Fruchtman of Northampton, a comedy about what happens when an Agnostic Jew goes into a confessional booth for the first time.

The one-act for those shows will be “Three Cigarettes Before Breakfast,” by Bragan Thomas of Provincetown, about a couple learning a new way of survival in New York City.

For performances at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 and 10, and 2 p.m. Nov. 9, the program will include the 10-minute plays: “A Bloomsbury Proposal,” by Carl Rossi of Boston, based on a true 1909 Bloomsbury incident when homosexual Lytton Strachey proposes to Virginia Stephen (the future Virginia Woolf) and she accepts; “Another Day in Paradise,” by Joe Starzky of Troy, NY, a spoof on the Adam and Eve story; “Deceit,” by Bob Cohen of Wellfleet, about what happens after a woman puts an ad in a Jewish-centric magazine seeking a man; and “Inheritance,” by Jan Maher of Plattsburgh, NY, about two characters left on an island, unsure of how to live with or without each other. The one-act play will be “What To Throw Out,” by Kathleen Warnock of Astoria, NY, about a college professor whose mover has a lot more to offer than expected.